2025 has been busy! I published my first book “StoryMaker”, which teaches adults how to create captivating new stories for or with young people. I’ve been running demoes and I’m looking to continue that in 2026. Read more about “StoryMaker” here
Voice Teaching has proliferated so I’m now a Lead Tutor at Metfilm (mic drop) and now teach multiple courses at MetFilm, IDSA and City Lit. I’ve seen my students on Netflix, on stage at Shakespeare’s Globe and Theatre Royal Stratford and City Lit gave me an award this year, Inspirational Tutor 2025. Chuffed. This year I also finished a long project for the Museum Of Story, Oxford, researching, writing, voicing a new kind of audio-description. New (and ongoing) research shows that blind visitors to museums and galleries have a more positive response to exhibits described not just in the clear, ‘objective’ manner but when described in a crowd-sourced emotive manner. SO we got VI kids to visit this beautiful museum, recorded their responses and then worked that into an immersive, narrativised script. Honestly, at product launch, seeing blind kids with headphones on exploring the museum with energy, curiosity, joy, has to mark as one of my happiest professional moments.
Here is a sample of the
1. Guide
. Sighted people are encouraged to use it too!
STORY MADNESS 2024 – my third year running at the International Shakespeare Fest, Globe Theatr, Neuss and, this time, they had me walk onstage with no idea what I was going to say! I did what my book “StoryMaker” teaches you to do – create a new story in the moment working from simple structural prompts. This time I used the Story Structure Shakespeare uses in his great tragedies and you can read the review here. They really put me on the spot. You can read my write up the story we created in my book which is available from May 15th 2025.
STEEPED IN BLOOD – Macbeth Stripped Down at Globe Theatr, Neuss, De.
For a second year running, in May 2023, I was invited to perform at the wonderful Shakespeare Festival in Neuss, Germany, in a perfect wooden replica of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, in Germany! I know – German people are without doubt some of the coolest in the world. After great feedback from my festival debut in 2022 with “Shakespeare’s Back Stories” the wonderful festival director Maya Delinic commissioned me to create a storytelling show of a Shakespeare play. I chose Macbeth. I will be touring it in UK now so it’s got it’s own page here, complete with reviews from regional newspapers. See
THE TINKER at Vault Festival
In February 2023 I was thrilled to play the tile role in Liv Foan’s new play. Directed and produced by Liv Munk of Part Of The Main, “The Tinker” is a tense and twisting tale which deliberately leaves the audience to discuss and decide which of the three characters has been telling the truth? Photos by Clare Hannan, set & costume by Nikki Charlesworth
Shakespeare Fest, Neuss, Germany 27-29 May
This extraordinary month-long festival, celebrating the genius of Shakespeare, much of it in English, all of it in a perfect wooden replica of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, is a perfect example of what makes German people so cool!!
On 20, 21, 22 I shall be running 90min StoryMaking workshops using narrative structure analysis of Shakespeare’s Comedies and Tragedies to guide the imagining of participants. On 21st I shall also be performing “Shakespeare’s Back Stories”, a 45min show featuring the folk stories which lie behind the creation of some of the greatest plays. You’ll learn why exactly Burnham Wood comes to Dunsinane, why meat loves salt and you’ll also hear the grand old tale of Mr Fox that Benedick, in Much Ado, just assumes we all know. Well, do you?
For tickets and full programme of events go here:-
I am, as a disabled man, very proud to have leant my voice to this beautiful open letter by Jan Grue, “The High Cost Of Living In A Disabling World” & grateful to Soho Voices for putting the work my way.
Here are some events that I’ve been a part of – click on the links for more information or check out my blog where I have written about touring in India in 2016 & 2017 (see below).
In 2012 at the behest of the brilliant Jane & Bernie Latham who founded UCAN Productions, a theatre company for young visually impaired people in Wales I worked with astonishing composer Lloyd Coleman to create a work to celebrate Disability and The Olympics for the Disability Olympiad Cymru. I suggested the story of Pheidippides, the herald, and his heroic runs to mobilise resistance to an invasion by the mighty Persian empire. Lloyd, who is hearing and sight impaired, wrote an orchestral score which was recorded by the BBC Wales Symphonia under Nicholas Collen. I created the narrative concept to which Lloyd wrote music, then, after the glorious music was completed I wrote and recorded this narration
On 11th August 2016, I told the story of AO Hume, 19th century civil servant during the Raj and one of the founders of the Indian National Congress and the founder of the South London Botanical Institute at the National Portrait Gallery.
In 2016 every Wednesday at 11am from 27th July to 24th August 16, I was at the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow telling Indian fairy tales to a packed audience of locals and beyond!
In 2016 I also ran a story making workshop for visually impaired children at the Telling Tales Festival at Shakespeare’s Globe. The RNIB were also involved and quite to my surprise I heard myself narrating from one of their exhibits! This experience led me to approach the Royal Society for Blind Children and throughout 2019 I worked with a group of young blind and partially sighted people teaching them storytelling skills, rhetorical speaking skills, all intended to enhance their abilities to speak for themselves, boost their confidence and enhance their employability. This work was generously supported by Arts Council England. The result? RSBC have told me they now wish to place creativity at the heart of their work with young people and they’ve asked me to help. We were going to but COVID hit. More to come…
In 2018 I was excited to be a part of the first East Anglian Storytelling Festival! I told stories, MC’d, I ran a voice workshop and sampled some rather fine ales…
2016 and we celebrated Festival at the Edge’s 25th anniversary where I ran a voice workshop.
I spent a lovely couple of days in Yorkshire back in June. First I was at York Explore taking a voice workshop and telling the Irish wonder tale Mongan’s Frenzy. Then I took the long, winding bus ride to Hebden Bridge to the Shaggy Dog Storytellers where I told Patched and Mended.
I recorded the Radio 4 Charity Appeal on behalf of the wonderful Snowdon Trust a charity set up to help disabled students in further and higher education who are working towards a professional goal. And they helped me when I did my MA in Voice Studies. Here’s how it all happened.
Story Mayhem at The Imagine Children’s Festival, 2016 – an interactive (and noisy) story making workshop with visually impaired children. Read all about it on my blog!
Touring with a show I devised about the extraordinary explorer Richard Francis Burton called “Tongues of Flame”
2025 has been busy! Voice Teaching has proliferated so I’m now a Lead Tutor at Metfilm (mic drop) and now teach multiple courses at MetFilm, IDSA and City Lit. I’ve seen my students on Netflix, on stage at Shakespeare’s Globe and Theatre Royal Stratford and City Lit gave me an award this year, Inspirational Tutor 2025. Chuffed. This year I also finished a long project for the Museum Of Story, Oxford, researching, writing, voicing a new kind of audio-description. New (and ongoing) research shows that blind visitors to museums and galleries have a more positive response to exhibits described not just in the clear, ‘objective’ manner but when described in a crowd-sourced emotive manner. SO we got VI kids to visit this beautiful museum, recorded their responses and then worked that into an immersive, narrativised script. Honestly, at product launch, seeing blind kids with headphones on exploring the museum with energy, curiosity, joy, has to mark as one of my happiest professional moments.
Here is a sample of the Guide. Sighted people are encouraged to use it too!
STORY MADNESS 2024 – my third year running at the International Shakespeare Fest, Globe Theatr, Neuss and, this time, they had me walk onstage with no idea what I was going to say! I did what my book “StoryMaker” teaches you to do – create a new story in the moment working from simple structural prompts. This time I used the Story Structure Shakespeare uses in his great tragedies and you can read the review here. They really put me on the spot. You can read my write up the story we created in my book which is available from May 15th 2025.
STEEPED IN BLOOD – Macbeth Stripped Down at Globe Theatr, Neuss, De.
For a second year running, in May 2023, I was invited to perform at the wonderful Shakespeare Festival in Neuss, Germany, in a perfect wooden replica of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, in Germany! I know – German people are without doubt some of the coolest in the world. After great feedback from my festival debut in 2022 with “Shakespeare’s Back Stories” the wonderful festival director Maya Delinic commissioned me to create a storytelling show of a Shakespeare play. I chose Macbeth. I will be touring it in UK now so it’s got it’s own page here, complete with reviews from regional newspapers. See
THE TINKER at Vault Festival
In February 2023 I was thrilled to play the tile role in Liv Foan’s new play. Directed and produced by Liv Munk of Part Of The Main, “The Tinker” is a tense and twisting tale which deliberately leaves the audience to discuss and decide which of the three characters has been telling the truth? Photos by Clare Hannan, set & costume by Nikki Charlesworth
Shakespeare Fest, Neuss, Germany 27-29 May
This extraordinary month-long festival, celebrating the genius of Shakespeare, much of it in English, all of it in a perfect wooden replica of Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, is a perfect example of what makes German people so cool!!
On 20, 21, 22 I shall be running 90min StoryMaking workshops using narrative structure analysis of Shakespeare’s Comedies and Tragedies to guide the imagining of participants. On 21st I shall also be performing “Shakespeare’s Back Stories”, a 45min show featuring the folk stories which lie behind the creation of some of the greatest plays. You’ll learn why exactly Burnham Wood comes to Dunsinane, why meat loves salt and you’ll also hear the grand old tale of Mr Fox that Benedick, in Much Ado, just assumes we all know. Well, do you?
For tickets and full programme of events go here:-
I am, as a disabled man, very proud to have leant my voice to this beautiful open letter by Jan Grue, “The High Cost Of Living In A Disabling World” & grateful to Soho Voices for putting the work my way.
Here are some events that I’ve been a part of – click on the links for more information or check out my blog where I have written about touring in India in 2016 & 2017 (see below).
In 2012 at the behest of the brilliant Jane & Bernie Latham who founded UCAN Productions, a theatre company for young visually impaired people in Wales I worked with astonishing composer Lloyd Coleman to create a work to celebrate Disability and The Olympics for the Disability Olympiad Cymru. I suggested the story of Pheidippides, the herald, and his heroic runs to mobilise resistance to an invasion by the mighty Persian empire. Lloyd, who is hearing and sight impaired, wrote an orchestral score which was recorded by the BBC Wales Symphonia under Nicholas Collen. I created the narrative concept to which Lloyd wrote music, then, after the glorious music was completed I wrote and recorded this narration
On 11th August 2016, I told the story of AO Hume, 19th century civil servant during the Raj and one of the founders of the Indian National Congress and the founder of the South London Botanical Institute at the National Portrait Gallery.
In 2016 every Wednesday at 11am from 27th July to 24th August 16, I was at the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow telling Indian fairy tales to a packed audience of locals and beyond!
In 2016 I also ran a story making workshop for visually impaired children at the Telling Tales Festival at Shakespeare’s Globe. The RNIB were also involved and quite to my surprise I heard myself narrating from one of their exhibits! This experience led me to approach the Royal Society for Blind Children and throughout 2019 I worked with a group of young blind and partially sighted people teaching them storytelling skills, rhetorical speaking skills, all intended to enhance their abilities to speak for themselves, boost their confidence and enhance their employability. This work was generously supported by Arts Council England. The result? RSBC have told me they now wish to place creativity at the heart of their work with young people and they’ve asked me to help. We were going to but COVID hit. More to come…
In 2018 I was excited to be a part of the first East Anglian Storytelling Festival! I told stories, MC’d, I ran a voice workshop and sampled some rather fine ales…
2016 and we celebrated Festival at the Edge’s 25th anniversary where I ran a voice workshop.
I spent a lovely couple of days in Yorkshire back in June. First I was at York Explore taking a voice workshop and telling the Irish wonder tale Mongan’s Frenzy. Then I took the long, winding bus ride to Hebden Bridge to the Shaggy Dog Storytellers where I told Patched and Mended.
I recorded the Radio 4 Charity Appeal on behalf of the wonderful Snowdon Trust a charity set up to help disabled students in further and higher education who are working towards a professional goal. And they helped me when I did my MA in Voice Studies. Here’s how it all happened.
Story Mayhem at The Imagine Children’s Festival, 2016 – an interactive (and noisy) story making workshop with visually impaired children. Read all about it on my blog!
